We are now offering an advisory service to our members, based on recommendations from other members of Chinnor & District u3a. Details will be available on a page headed "Who You Gonna Call? ..."

If you have had a local trades person provide a particularly good service that you would like to recommend, you can submit the details of that person, to us and we will add that information to a database.

If you require the service of a tradesperson, you can make a request via the website and if we have a suitable match on the database we will forward those details to you.

Click on the "Ghost Busters" logo to go to the page, then follow the links.

This service will be run on a trial basis for three months, at the end of which, a decision will be made whether or not to continue that service.

Any recommendation must be a local tradesperson and not a commercial company. The u3a cannot guarantee any recommendation, nor can we accept responsibility for dissatisfaction of any work undertaken. This service is only offered on the basis that it is meant to be an aid to all our members and should not be considered as a guarantee of satisfaction. All details provided will remain confidential and will only be supplied to bona fide Chinnor & District u3a members.

Wishing, and thinking, and hoping, and praying…

“… and I say to myself what a wonderful world”

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That’s a strangely disturbing song

For if you stand, and look, and listen

It surely must be wrong

You only have to be exposed

To the hate, and the hurt, and the pain

And you might ask “with all this lack of love?”

Will we ever find peace again?

“Robbery’s up, guns are up

and the police are under threat”

And the kids are abused and there’s more drugs used

How much worse can it possibly get?

“What can we do?” some will ask

And we rarely find the way

For if we take on all of the troubles we see

We just wait ‘til the end of the day

And fall to our knees and say “God, please…”

For another fix for our strife

And then open our eyes and as time flies…

get on with the rest of our life

Well, I suppose in a way that praying’s OK

And it’s better than just not caring

But if we look for a friend to help with the mend

What is it we’re really sharing?

The one we implore has possibly got

His own troubles, and doubts, and confusions

So, before we start to add to his load

Don’t share problems, try sharing solutions

And so, I will say - I will pray every day

But for the strength, with banner unfurled

To get up off my knees and after “God, please…”

Say “… let me help make this a wonderful world”.

Brian Fowler December 2025